Posts Tagged ‘Baked goods’

Based on the contents of my past few CSA boxes, zucchini is doing really well this year. Or at least there's a lot of it growing. It's a veggie that you can easily add to just about anything, and that's pretty much what I've been doing with it. Grated, it makes a wonderful "raw" pasta substitute, I love it lightly stir-fried with other veggies, it's delicious sauteed and added to salads, omelets, or whatever else is cooking, and then of course there's always zucchini bread. My grandmother used to make it every summer. She would bake it in loaves, and then sandwich softened cream cheese between thin slices. It tasted like cake, and I suppose it practically was the way she made it. YUM.

I started looking online for gluten free zucchini bread recipes, and I came across some zucchini mini muffins with chocolate chips over on Elana's Pantry. I love that website, and I have her Gluten Free Almond Flour cookbook, which I use regularly. She now also has a Gluten-Free Cupcakes book, which is now on my wish list, if anyone is feeling generous.

This delicious gluten-free cake has a warm spicy flavour from its three types of ginger - fresh, crystallised and dried. The flavour improves when the cake is kept for a few days, so it is great as a bake ahead treat.

This recipe is based on the Ginger Butter Cake in Williams-Sonoma "Essentials of baking" p 100.

This is often how things work with me. I decide at some point that I want something. Pizza, cookies, a madeleine...and since I'm eating a gluten-free diet, I can't always go to the store to buy it. Or, maybe I can but it's not always good.

So it was, that day, when I really wanted a good biscotti. Believe it or not, I've never even made them, even with gluten! The next part of the journey began with finding the right recipe.

I wasn't in the mood for lemon pecan or orange walnut. I didn't want chocolate either. Cinnamon almond was coming to mind so that's what I decided to (more…)

Savory Gluten-Free Spinach Quiche is made with a delicious Savory Gluten-Free Shortcrust recipe, adapted from a recipe by Master Baker Avner Laskin. This is a terrific, and, believe it or not, easy gluten-free recipe for special occasion brunches.

Our Guide to British and Irish Cooking, Elaine Lemm has great names for this easy potato cake recipe. Elaine says that in Scotland the recipe is called "Tattie Scones or Potato Scones" and in Ireland "Fadge or Potato Bread." Whatever you call them, these little potato cakes are easy to make, economical and a good use for leftover mashed potatoes. Fadge can be baked or pan-fried. The fadge pictured here was baked.

This recipe is adapted to gluten-free cooking from Elaine Lemm's recipe for "Tattie Scones." (more…)

Use this delicious recipe for homemade gluten-free brownies to make special heart-shaped brownies for a Valentine's Day treat. If you're short on time, use one of the great gluten-free brownie mixes on the market, like Gluten-Free Pantry® Chocolate Truffle Brownies.

Once you have been cooking and baking gluten free for a while, making substitutions should become easy. This recipe from Whole Foods originally called for regular flour. By simply using a combination of brown rice flour and tapioca flour, a delicious and satisfying gluten free dessert was born. (more…)

Try this twice-baked cookie for a delicious treat that's yummy to the last bite.

Ingredients

1 cup fructose

½ cup butter, softened or substitute fat

2 eggs

1 ¼ cup rice flour

½ cup tapioca

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon xanthan gum

3/4 cup almonds (optional)

Equipment

Aluminum cookie sheet.Oven.

Process

Preheat oven to 350 degree F. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and fructose until light and fluffy. Add extracts, then beat in eggs one at a time.

In a medium bowl, mix together flours, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, and cocoa. Add to creamed mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until blended. Stir in almonds then cover dough and chill 10 minutes to make easier to handle. Divide dough into 2 parts. Place each part on a lightly greased cookie sheet and shape into a uniform loaf about 10 inches long. Bake 25 minutes.

Remove from oven. Let rest on cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then place loaves on a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes. With a thin, sharp knife cut each loaf into diagonal slices about ½ inch wide. Place slices on cookie sheet and bake at 325 degrees F for 10 minutes. Turn over and bake 8 minutes. Cool on wire rack, then store in airtight container. Makes about 36.